ixmicro ix3d card support
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From: Brett Dikeman <hidden>
Date: 1999-02-18 02:09:04
I'm having some problems with the latest kernels supporting my ix3d card. According to ixMicro documentation and the big central chip's stamping "Twin Turbo 128-3D", my ixMicro Ultimate Rez card is really just a slightly faster tt128 card with some 3D stuff thrown in for yucks. However, the card, if present in the system when the kernel loads, causes -severe- problems. The last line displayed concerns the discovery+initialization of the floppy controller; then it spits out "machine check in kernel mode" and lots of stuff about the memory manager and "swapper". (I have a photograph of the screen I took with a digital camera, so I can copy down the info or just post the JPG on my web server.)
From all appearances, adding support for the ix3d card seems like it would require very little work since it is so similar to a twin turbo card, but I'm admittedly ignorant as to the finer details(or any details) of graphics card drivers :)
Once I complete an install of linux(had to blow it away months ago, never got around to replacing it) I can boot without the card, and help in testing anything in development for the card by swapping it in and out. What would help considerably is a way to get the kernel to just ignore the ix3d card and use my 8500's builtin video instead. Some sort of OF trick, maybe? BTW, at the moment, I'm not subbed to the developer list. I will certainly be doing so in the next few days, but in the meantime, please cc me on any messages regarding this. Final note: I also have a PCI jackhammer SE card, identical to the one in many Workgroup servers and other apple systems. Can't beat $150 for UW-SCSI3, and it would be -fantastic- to have my UW drive available. I sort of assumed that with this card being in so many apple systems, that there would already be drivers for it. Are there? Thanks all! Brett ---- Brett Dikeman Network/System Administrator Artel Software 617-451-9900x119 381 Congress Street 617-451-9916(fax) Boston, MA 02210 brett@artelsoft.com http://www.borisfx.com [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]